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Frequently debunked crackpots claim the AR is worthless for self-defense<\/a>
\nThe Trace teams up with the Gun Violence Archive and hilarity ensues.<\/em><\/p>\n

When the young paste-eaters at Michael Bloomberg\u2019s anti-gun propaganda factory, known as the Trace, team up with the stodgy window-lickers at the Gun Violence Archive to produce a story about the utility of the AR platform as a modern self-defense tool, it\u2019s hard not to get too excited.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like watching two freight trains headed toward each other on the same track. You know the results are going to be cataclysmic. None of these halfwits have ever heard a shot fired, much less one fired in anger, or especially one fired to good effect. They know less about what makes a reliable home-defense weapon than I do about man-buns, skinny jeans or avocado toast.<\/p>\n

We have debunked the Trace and the Gun Violence Archive so often it\u2019s getting old. The kids at the Trace masquerade as legitimate journalists when in fact they\u2019re nothing more than highly paid anti-gun activists. The GVA purports to track gun crimes and maintain a list of mass shootings, but their data is collected from media and even social media sources, and their stats are so inflated they\u2019d have you believe a mass shooting occurs nearly every time someone draws from a holster. When the two anti-gun nonprofits combine for a story, it\u2019s bound to be something as bereft of facts as it is poorly written, and to that standard their most recent collaboration does not disappoint.<\/p>\n

A story published Tuesday asks:\u00a0\u201cHow Often Are AR-Style Rifles Used for Self-Defense? Supporters of AR-15s, often used in mass shootings and racist attacks, say they’re important for self-defense. Our analysis of Gun Violence Archive data suggests otherwise.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The story was written by one of the Trace\u2019s senior fabulists, Jennifer Mascia, who is \u201ccurrently the lead writer of the Ask the Trace series and tracks news developments on the gun beat.\u201d Mascia has also led the Trace\u2019s hilarious\u00a0we\u2019re journalists, not activists<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0propaganda campaign on social media.<\/p>\n

Mascia claims her story was a response to a reader\u2019s question: \u201cMany gun owners claim to buy assault-style rifles for defense. So how many documented cases are out there where someone actually defended themselves with an assault-style rifle?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mascia reportedly searched the GVA\u2019s data for \u201cassault weapon,\u201d which she said the GVA defines as \u201cAR-15, AK-47, and all variants defined by law enforcement.\u201d Of course, there\u2019s no mention whether the weapons were capable of select-fire and therefore\u00a0actual<\/em>\u00a0assault weapons. She started with 190 incidents, which she whittled down for various reasons. The results: \u201cThat left 51 incidents over a nine-and-a-half-year span in which legal gun owners brandished or used an AR-style rifle to defend life or property. That averages out to around five per year.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be clear, I trust Mascia\u2019s findings about as much as I trust the GVA data that produced the results. The whole story is GIGO \u2014 garbage in, garbage out.<\/p>\n

It is noteworthy that the firearms \u201cexpert\u201d whom Mascia found to further beclown herself \u2014 who wrote\u00a0in a CNN story<\/a>\u00a0that the AR is the last gun he\u2019d recommend for self-defense \u2014 is none other than former Washington D.C. police officer Michael Fanone. He\u2019s the officer who cried a lot before the January 6 Commission \u2014 the one with the beard who cried a lot, if that helps jog your memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m more familiar with the gun than most people: I own one. And one thing I know for sure is that this weapon doesn\u2019t belong in the hands of the average civilian,\u201d Fanone wrote of the AR platform in the CNN story.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The network must have liked the cut of his jib. Fanone is now a CNN contributor and hawking a new book: \u201cHold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop\u2019s Battle for America\u2019s Soul.\u201d (Nancy Pelosi highly recommended it.)<\/p>\n

Since he\u2019s so afraid of the AR platform, I can\u2019t help but wonder what weapon Fanone, or for that matter, Mascia, would recommend for home defense. If I had to guess, it probably has two barrels, a wooden stock and exposed hammers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m somewhat familiar with the AR myself, which is why I trust it to defend my hearth and home. It\u2019s light, accurate and deadly, which is exactly the point, and something we should stop making allowances for.<\/p>\n

Despite the exhortations of Bloomberg\u2019s activists or crybaby ex-cops, an AR is exactly what I want when The Bad Man comes a-calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frequently debunked crackpots claim the AR is worthless for self-defense The Trace teams up with the Gun Violence Archive and hilarity ensues. When the young paste-eaters at Michael Bloomberg\u2019s anti-gun propaganda factory, known as the Trace, team up with the stodgy window-lickers at the Gun Violence Archive to produce a story about the utility of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,64,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-deceit","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95656,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95655\/revisions\/95656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}